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New Release at Tram 06/05

Recent Arrivals at Tram Vol.1 set 1

tracks i like

March 2015

seltzer bottles and machinery

02. Las Preguntas

Featuring an array of Chicago heavyweights, this limited edition release is not your average solo album. As the album title suggests, this is a uniquely collaborative effort from a diverse group of individuals. The album is actually the third in a series of collaborations between the prolific poet Marvin Tate and multi-instrumentalist (& former Wilco member) LeRoy Bach. In each collaboration, all stories and melody were provided by Tate; with music and production by Bach.

But as the new songs came together, Bach recognized the material had rich possibilities for interpretation, and suggested they hand the mic over to Tim Kinsella (the eccentric voice behind Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz, Owls, & Make Believe). Kinsella became the album's narrator, walking the line between judgment and sympathy, and shepherding all of Tate's characters through their various struggles. Themes of race, private culture, and psychological stress rise throughout the work. 

Eventually the consensus was made that some of the stories could be enhanced by an additional singer- a second persona.  The trio enlisted their friend Angel Olsen (Jagjaguwar Records), who immediately took to Tate’s melodies and characters. Recording took place over many afternoons, with Bach providing the instrumentation from his home studio in Humboldt Park, with mixing & mastering help from David Vandervelde.

Tim Kinsella "Idolize"

Joan of Arc - Love Life

Victor Villarreal "Leaves"

Joan of Arc - Life Force

Just Yet

More info: https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/tim-kinsella-artist-in-residence.html

Tim Kinsella - Issues

New Portable Sunsets album out March 17th. Free download album track "Sisters" now at XLR8R. 

http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2015/02/portable-sunsets-sisters/

1. Bless
2. Crosby
3. Ledges
4. rm-R
5. Straylight
6. Pearl
7. Islander (Version)
8. Conversion
9. Sisters
10. Cloakmode
11. Screen Presence

Bless

Sisters

Download at XLR8R

Portable Sunsets - Sisters

Fool

"Back Home" is the latest track from sad bedroom pop act Lyfe Indoors.  Lyfe Indoors make sad dystopian dreampop for broken hearted people.

Lyfe Indoors - "Back Home"

from The Rabbit's Voice 7" EP
April 2015
Third Rupture (eno/wyr?4515)

Per Schooner Agro

Manchester

Available on clear vinyl limited to 2000 units which are numbered

This is a collaboration between Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre) which happened early in 2014 & the summer of 2014 in Berlin . As everyone hopefully knows about Anton Newcombe’s history we have decided to tell you more about Tess Parks.

A native of Toronto, Tess Parks moved to London, England at the age of seventeen where she briefly studied photography before dropping out and deciding to focus on music. Tess managed to make an impression on industry legend Alan McGee, founder of Creation Records, albeit the timing of their meeting could hardly have been less ideal; McGee was no longer involved in music and Tess was due to move back to Toronto. After moving back to her hometown in 2012, Tess formed a band on the advice of Alan McGee and less than a year after their meeting, he returned to music with his new label, 359 Music. Tess became one of his first six signings and released her debut record Blood Hot in November 2013 to excellent reviews. One reviewer described her as “Patti Smith on Quaaludes”. Others have mentioned her "gauzy psychedelic sound” and "smouldering voice”. Alan McGee himself said: “She’s only 24 and is already an amazing songwriter... she just doesn’t quite know she is yet … her most beautiful quality is her lack of ego. Tess is an amazing lady”.

In February 2014, she began recording with Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe in Berlin and they completed their new record 'I Declare Nothing' in autumn 2014. The record is due out later this year..

Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe - Cocaine Cat

7" hand cut record, limited to 25. Available from our site from 1pm, 17.04.15:  http://artishardrecords.limitedrun.com/products/549666?preview=true

Part three of our Hand Cut Record Club and on to someone who we’ve been invigorated with ever since we heard the opening bars of Relapser - a riffing shoegaze pop masterpiece that perfectly juxtaposed huge sounding guitars with Oliver’s softly sung verses. It was hard to escape the song, everyone we knew and trusted were sharing the song. 

So we’re delighted to be welcoming O. Chapman to the fold with his new single Best Friend. Stepping up from the bedroom productions showcased on the Discomfort EP, the track was recorded with Theo Verney back in February and Oliver is also backed up by 2/3 of Our Girl. 

Featuring the same aspirin added wooze and swelling choruses that seems to have become the customary sound of the Brighton noisemakers, Best Friend is a song with a seemingly simple message but many levels to lose yourself in. Just as with Discomfort, the Kurt Vile’esque melodies remain as Oliver sings of the sort of friendship so strong, that you’d do anything for them - even if the other half does have their faults. 

As with previous Hand Cut singles, Best Friend will be released on lathe cut 7″ and limited to 25 copies. The 25 copies will be available from our shop here at 1pm today! We’ve already had an email from a girl threatening to bomb our office with cockroaches if she doesn’t get a copy so I’m imagining they’ll go pretty fast.

If you do miss out, don’t forget that we’re involved in Record Store Day this year and will be featuring on the Sensible Labels 12″ alongside heroes such as Alcopop, Big Scary Monsters and Howling Owl. We’ve got a new Best Friends track on there, I watched them play it last night and it’s a banger plus the record is only £10....I’ll stop with the hard sell now!

O. Chapman - Best Friend

Previously unreleased track from Thee Oh Sees, found on the benefit compilation "50 Bands & A Cat for Indiana Equality". More info & purchase here: https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/50-bands-and-a-cat-for-indiana-equality.html

Thee Oh Sees - The Ceiling

Bonus track from the "In The Wilderness" sessions. Purchase debut album from Stranger Cat here: https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/stranger-cat-in-the-wilderness.html

Stranger Cat - The Tracks

Kacy & Clayton - Strange Country

GGB-008
The album "House in the Tall Grasses" will be released on LP/CD/DL in May 13th.

CD/LP/DL: https://gurugurubrain.bandcamp.com/album/house-in-the-tall-grass

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Kikagaku MoyoHouse in Tall Grass

Kikagaku Moyo - "Melted Crystal"

Released May 6, 2016 via Joyful Noise Recordings

Order Direct: http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/yoni-and-geti-testarossa

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/testarossa/id1091752520

Yoni & Geti - Wassup (Uh Huh)

Buy the single in all formats here:
BIG CROWN WEBSTORE: https://bigcrownrecords.com/store/bacao-rhythm-steel-band-love-like-this-45-edit-bw-was-dog-a-doughnut/

Taken from the Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band album "55" available here:

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Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Love Like This (45 Edit) - BC004-45 - Side A

Behemooth (SingleEdit)

'The Child' is taken from A Youthful Dream, the debut album from Yung
- in stores June 10

Pre-order:
LP/CD/limited edition transparent vinyl - http://smarturl.it/AYouthfulDream.LPCD
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/YungAlbum.iTunes

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“I wrote The Child while working a summer job at a crop farm last year. I stayed at the farm for ten days and had very little to do besides working and playing the guitar. The words came much later than the music – I wrote them after CMJ. It’s a reflection on the conflict between being an artist but also being successful, so I think CMJ had some bearing on shaping the lyrics. When you start playing music you do it for the sake of writing music but when you’re signed to a label there’s commercial pressure. There are good things and bad things about that. One of the good things certainly is that you have to reinvent yourself within or beyond your music, which I tried to do with The Child, as it’s a bit different to a lot of Yung songs.” - Mikkel Holm Silkjær


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Yung - The Child

"Crisis" / ANOHNI / HOPELESSNESS

Opening track to the new Joan of Arc album, Testimonium Songs, available July 30, 2013.
http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/testimonium

Testimonium Songs is a collaboration between Joan of Arc and Every house has a door.
http://www.everyhousehasadoor.org/projects/testimony-22